On 26 February, a news release from the UN advised of amendments to 5 entries on its Libyan sanctions list.
https://www.un.org/press/en/2020/sc14124.doc.htm
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On 27 February, US thinktank, the Center for a New American Security published an article examining US sanctions listings and de-listing during the period, broken down by categories and sanctions regime. If nothing else, the analysis shows the massive increase in the use of sanctions in the 10-year period, illustrated by the following chart –
https://www.cnas.org/publications/reports/sanctions-by-the-numbers
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EU Regulation 2020/269/EU of 26 February replaces the list of vessels involved in IUU fishing contained in Part B to the Annex to EU Regulation 468/2010/EU.
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On 27 February, HM Treasury issued a Notice confirming the removal of Al-Mokhtar Ben Mohamed Ben Al-Mokhtar BOUCHOUCHA and Imad Ben Bechir Ben Hamda AL-JAMMALI from the Consolidated List, following the publication of EU Regulation 2020/259/EU.
A news release from the Isle of Man on 27 February followed suit.
https://www.gov.im/news/2020/feb/27/financial-sanctions-isil-daesh-and-al-qaida/
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A news release from the EU on 27 February announced that the EU Council had imposed sanctions restrictions on 2 Turkish citizens under a framework for restrictive measures in response to Turkey’s illegal drilling activities in the Eastern Mediterranean which was set up in November 2019. The men have been named as Mehmet Ferruh Akalin, Vice-President and member of the Board of Directors of TPAO, and Ali Coscun Namoglu, the Deputy Director of the Exploration Department.
https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=OJ:L:2020:056I:TOC
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On 27 February, the Guardian reported that, apparently acting against the warnings of senior law enforcement officials, the UK government said it would not be seeking to participate in the European arrest warrant (EAW) as part of the future relationship with the EU, instead wishing to opt for a “fast-track” extradition agreement similar to the so-called surrender agreements with Norway and Iceland (also non-EU states). The Guardian comments that in 9 years to 2017/18, the UK sent back over 9,000 people using the EAW system, and brought back over 1,200. It also points out that, with the EAW vastly shortening the average extradition timetables, before the arrest warrant existed it took 10 years to extradite Rachid Ramda from Britain to France over his role in the 1995 Paris metro bombing, while in 2005 it took just 56 days to bring the failed 21/7 London tube bomber Hussain Osman back from Italy to London using an arrest warrant.
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On 27 February, OFAC issued General License 8: Authorizing Certain Humanitarian Trade Transactions Involving the Central Bank of Iran, together with related FAQ, connected with the formalisation of the Swiss Humanitarian Trade Arrangement (SHTA), which became fully operational on 27 February. A factsheet on SHTA is also made available in the form of a news release from US Treasury. SHTA is intended to further facilitate the flow of humanitarian goods to the Iranian people while safeguarding against the Iranian regime’s diversion of humanitarian trade for malign purposes..
https://www.treasury.gov/resource-center/sanctions/Programs/Documents/gtsr_gl8.pdf
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On 26 February, the Havana Times reported that the Cuban government has resorted to buying a ship carrying fuel after its owner refused to dock on the island for fear of incurring US sanctions. A minister did not give details on the origin of the vessel, saying only that the Cuban government was forced to buy it with “the limited financial resources available to the country”.
https://havanatimes.org/news/cuba-buys-oil-tanker-to-circumvent-us-sanctions/
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On 26 February, Al Jazeera carried a disturbing feature saying that, more than 30 years after the nuclear accident, fires pose environmental risks and stir fears over illegal logging. It says that, shrouding two-thirds of the Zone, the forest insulates radioactive contamination as vegetation and soil absorb particles of uranium-238, caesium-137 and other radionuclides that were rocketed out of Reactor Four. Burning such woods is incredibly dangerous, as fires that turn radionuclides into inhalable, windblown aerosols, though there are “sanitary” clearings are the firebreaks carved out by Pivnichna Pushcha (Northern Forest), a state-run forestry whose sole purpose is to prevent fires in the Zone. However, ash can be dispersed great distances by wind to areas outside of the zone and thus affect people, while some of the ash settles near the site of the fire and can return the area to a very high level of radioactivity. There is also a danger from logging of trees, mostly tall, decades-old pines, oaks and ash-trees that often stand on contaminated soil – and fetch a good price at Ukraine’s timber market, according to corruption monitors and officials; and it is alleged that fires are used to justify more logging of trees that are smuggled out of the Zone. The agency involved is allowed to sell limited amounts of the Zone’s timber since 2004 as long as each tree is scanned for radioactivity but there are claims that the timber has left the Zone without scanning and documentation and tracked to furniture factories, and claims some of it was shipped to Romania and can further be resold in the EU. There are also greater concerns about charcoal with radiation levels exceeding the permissible levels 4 times that was found on sale in some Ukrainian supermarkets (in 2007). Police have raided illegal charcoal workshops, and it is said that the use of radioactive charcoal is inherently more hazardous than furniture as the health risks stemming from the ingestion of radioactive materials can be significant.
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On 27 February, Australia Defence Magazine published a report providing some guidance on the risk from a “trusted insider” who might, intentionally or not (e.g. due to threats, blackmail) put the company at risk by deliberate act or unwittingly (e.g. by releasing classified material). A “trusted insider” is defined as a current or former employee or contractor who has legitimate access to information, technology, assets, or premises owned by a business or organisation. It cites as a recent example the illegal export of export control (ITAR) information from a large international defence prime employee in the US. It stresses a thorough risk assessment and provides 10 steps for protecting your business from trusted insider threats.
https://www.australiandefence.com.au/news/how-defence-smes-can-manage-insider-threats
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